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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 135–156.
Published: 01 July 2019
... and Homosexuality in Egyptian Cinema .” Film International 8 , no. 1 : 18 – 24 . Jarmakani Amira . 2008 . Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S. New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Kiernan Maureen . 1995 . “ Cultural Hegemony...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 416–422.
Published: 01 November 2019
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 307–329.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Carolina Bracco Abstract The appearance of the character of a femme fatale in Egyptian cinema in the mid-1950s is deeply intertwined with the new social and moral imprint made by the Nasserist regime. At a time when women’s participation in the public sphere was regulated, the portrayal of the evil...
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figures 1–2. Samia Gamal in Ciro’s (1950) and Life (1951). Source: Catholic Cinema Center, Cairo.
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Figures 1–2. Samia Gamal in Ciro’s (1950) and Life (1951). Source: Catholic Cinema Center, Cairo.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 177–196.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Burcu Dabak Özdemir Abstract This essay analyzes how postfeminism is constructed on a visual level in the Turkish context. It uses theories of postfeminism to discuss new popular romantic comedies of Turkish cinema by comparing the new female protagonists with the women portrayed in Yeşilçam...
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figures 4–5. Pictures of Hind Rustum in magazines of the time, no date. Source: Catholic Cinema Center, Cairo.
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Figures 4–5. Pictures of Hind Rustum in magazines of the time, no date. Source: Catholic Cinema Center, Cairo.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 293–295.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of the collection shifts to cinema. Nicole Fares carries questions about Arab men to the diaspora and focuses on the tensions of not belonging, which put a powerful shadow on the often-quoted discourses on diversity, cosmopolitanism, and integration. Alessandro Columbu takes Zakariya Tamir’s works as his focus...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 80–106.
Published: 01 July 2014
... to be the standard-bearer for engaged
cinema because almost every political film since 1966 is compared to it.
Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies
Vol. 10, No. 2 (Spring 2014) © 2014
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 88–90.
Published: 01 July 2009
..., the earliest dating from 1985 (“Th e Cinema aft er Babel
while the most recent, “Th e ‘Postcolonial’ in Translation: Reading Ed-
ward Said between English and Hebrew,” was published in 2004. Only
one of the essays is new, “Post-Fanon and the Colonial: A Situational
Diagnosis.” Yet...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 330–343.
Published: 01 November 2019
...-exception: ‘Much Loved’ and Realism, Colonialism, and Pornography in Moroccan Cinema .” Jadaliyya , September 2 . www.jadaliyya.com/Details/32424/The-Moroccan-Non-Exception-%60Much-Loved%60-and-Realism,-Colonialism,-and-Pornography-in-Moroccan-Cinema . Buchaca Daniel Montañà i . 2001...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 56–85.
Published: 01 July 2007
.../Palestine and with a European training in cinema may
well have provided him with the necessary distance to address Palestin-
ian culture and society critically. Moreover, the transnational economic
context in which he made this fi lm (with European funding and an
international art house audience...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 137–139.
Published: 01 March 2013
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The Light in Her Eyes
Julia Meltzer and Laura Nix. New York: Cinema Guild, 2012.
87 minutes...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 104–107.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., a three-day event that brings together filmmakers and audiences at one of the region’s most popular art house cinemas. This year the festival’s curator and founder, the filmmaker and professor Tania Khalaf, included a variety of films that engaged with Arab women’s contemporary lives. I have selected four...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 115–139.
Published: 01 March 2012
... widely
explored in Lebanese war cinema—is the culture of masculinity that
developed in the militias. In Lebanese postwar films, militiamen often
appear crazed, reckless, and violent, but also brimming with masculine
swagger. Some directors try to humanize militiamen by showing how
the “war...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 235–243.
Published: 01 July 2020
... with real cinema equipment that had been used by the New Wave movement, meaning a 16mm Beaulieu color camera and a Nagra sound recorder. So, that’s how it happened. The first move was to just be there, out of solidarity. And then we decided that things mattered so much that we wanted to record...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 264–282.
Published: 01 November 2020
... are patriarchal, recent Yugoslav cinema describes their tribal life as matriarchal on every level, from ethnic mythology to the emotional realm of male characters.” Andrew Horton ( 1998 : 179), contrasting Emir Kusturica’s Time of the Gypsies with Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather films, analyzes how Kusturica...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 157–162.
Published: 01 July 2005
... Like Us (Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri)
2003, 60 minutes
Reviewed by Shahla Haeri, Department of Anthropology, Boston University
With lifting up the social restrictions in the aftermath of the Iran-Iraq war,
and beginning in the early 1990s, Iranian cinema found a new...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 242–243.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., one in Arabic and one in English. The only access to the world was through international radio stations broadcasting in Arabic, such as the BBC and Monte Carlo and, to a lesser extent, some Arab states’ stations. There are no theaters or cinemas even today, and occasional cultural events struggle...
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